Quickbook Tips

Are You Defining Items in QuickBooks Correctly?

By |2022-08-18T08:46:58-04:00December 17th, 2012|QuickBooks Tips|

Create item records in QuickBooks carefully, and QuickBooks will return the favor by running useful, accurate reports.  Figure 1: Clearly-defined items result in precise reports. Obviously, you're using QuickBooks because you buy and/or sell products and/or services. You want to know at least weekly -- if not daily -- what's selling and what's not, so [...]

QuickBooks 2013 Gives You A Reason to Upgrade

By |2022-08-18T08:46:59-04:00December 10th, 2012|QuickBooks Tips|

Tired of QuickBooks' cramped, claustrophobic screens and uneven interface? You'll be pleased to see the 2013 version. You chose QuickBooks for a variety of reasons, a major one being its simplicity and usability. But the software is more than 20 years old now, and hundreds of features have been added over the years. QuickBooks looks [...]

Tracking Bills in QuickBooks, Worth the Effort

By |2022-08-18T08:46:59-04:00December 3rd, 2012|QuickBooks Tips|

Next to payroll, paying bills is probably your least favorite task in QuickBooks. You don't have to use this feature – you can keep stacking bills on your desk, scrawling the due dates on a paper calendar, and writing checks.  If you're still operating this way, though, you're missing out on the numerous tools that [...]

QuickBooks Income Tax Reports And Filtering Options: Target The Right Output

By |2022-08-18T08:47:00-04:00November 26th, 2012|QuickBooks Tips|

QuickBooks, of course, can't do your taxes for you. But it helps you lay some of the groundwork.  We'll look at the program's tax-related reports and its powerful report-filtering options. But first, you'll need to make sure that this output will be accurate. Describe your company accurately Your tax entity setting should have been established [...]

Portable Productivity: Smartphones Do Invoices, Expenses, Time Billing

By |2022-08-18T08:47:01-04:00November 19th, 2012|QuickBooks Tips|

These three web-based apps – accessible via your smartphone -- provide mobile access to QuickBooks data. Accounting in the cloud is closer than you might think. In fact, it's here, in some cases. QuickBooks Online, of course, is entirely cloud-based, but it does not yet offer all of the features found in Intuit's top-of-the-line products, [...]

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